Why MIDI?

I think it all comes with conditioning and a breaking of preconceptions. Maybe some imagination can help too... lol. But what I basically did was listen to real orchestras play a piece and then find a midi rendition of said piece. In the end, the midi sounded much closer to real life than I expected. And that's how it has remained for me now. It's training :P

Not just that much, but, well, MIDI is small for a reason. It's not audio at all, simply a simple code that tells a computer's sound card to play a certain instrument a certain pitch a certain length. The actual sound doesn't come from the file at all. It comes from your computer's internal Instrument bank, which attaches tones to the "score" a midi file will give.

For that reason, I can upload a MIDI, and when I listen to it on my computer it will have a completely different sound than it will on yours.

MIDI is used because it is incredibly small, virtually universal, and very easy to convert. I use MIDI files because I can write them on Anvil Studio (which I prefer for it's simplicity) before uploading on Sibelius and printing the scores for my bandmates. FL studio, for instance, will really only work on FL studio. I can't convert that file to other mediums without basically rewriting it.

These programs are readily available for "borrowing" from "certain places" on the internet :toothygrin:

I don't have a powerful enough computer to run them. Period.

From Yahoo! directory:

Young Composers

Listen to the original MIDI music compositions of young composers.

Category: Music > Composition

Young Composers

This was already supposed to be taken care of, it's an old listing and not current, like many years old. I have no idea why it's still up, but Mike or Choppy should address this.

Basically, the transparency of the format is what shows the true colors of the composer. If you want your music to "sound good" then write it better. If you want it to sound like real instruments, then hire a sound engineer.

Stravinsky sounds like CRAP in MIDI. Good "MIDI" music sounds like CRAP on real instruments. Don't just by what something sounds like LIVE or in MIDI, but how it's SUPPOSED to be.

well

i write music using midi cos it scores/ playsback at the same time, convenient, FREE (using anvil studio here), easy to edit, tracks over another easily, etcs and etcs..

i just play with what im given, im not gna shell out 500 especially not when this is more of a hobby than a career aspiration for me anyway

Stravinsky sounds like CRAP in MIDI. Good "MIDI" music sounds like CRAP on real instruments. Don't just by what something sounds like LIVE or in MIDI, but how it's SUPPOSED to be.

Someone brought up earlier that yes, indeed, it is your computer that is parsing the data and making the sound. It all depends on your soundcard. I was blessed to have a realistic-sounding sound card by which I can listen to the Midi version of a symphony and have it sound close to the real version.